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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARGARET MILN-E, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BOUQUET-FASTENING.

' S'LDECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,853,datel September 8, 1885.

Application inea April 24, iss. i

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARGARET MILNE, a citizenA of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and'useful Improvementin Bouquet! Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new article of manufacture in bouquet-fasteners consisting of a pin havinga lateral bent arm with an eye on one end and a point on the other, and to the eye loosely attached a spiral wire spring band, so that any of the coils of the free end of this band may be made to engage the point of the pin and hold more or less bouquetowers, as will be hereinafter fully understood.

Heretofore bouquet-fastenings have been made liable to break the stems of the ilowers, liable to slip the ower,and become detached from the wearers clothing during walking, and on account of' shrinkage of the stems of the bouquet. Such fastenings are also in convenient for hasty application.

The object of this invention is to have a superior, convenient, and more positive fastening; and :it consists of an elastic clamp fastening having a number of clamping-spaces, so that by this means to clamp and hold the stems more severally and thereby provide for shrinkage and hold the bouquet more positively to the wearcrs clothing, especially during walking.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l represents a side view of the fastening detached,and Fig. 2 a similar view of the same as applied with the bouquet according to my invention.

A represents a suitable pin with an eye, B, and a point, C, on its opposite ends. Said point passes readily through the wearers (No model.)

4it over the stems of the bouquet-owcrs when- 45 ever the fastening is applied. The pin A is passed laterally through the clothing at the location for the bouquet, allowing the point C to project outside. The stems of the iiowers are placed across the pin A upon the clothing, 5o and thespring-band D is drawn over the stems, and its loose end with one of its coils is passed over the point C so as to hook fast the stems. By this means the coils of the wire spring i press and arrange themselves between the 55 stems of the flowers of the bouquet, and not only clamp the wholeof the bouquetstems,but severally, and hold them, and clamp the same, and nearly each, in vertical, in lateral, and in longitudinal direction.

Having fully described the construction and use of my newly-invented bouquetfastening, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, a bouquet- 65 fastener consisting of a pin,A A, having a point,

C, at one end and a right-angled arm with anr eye, B, at the other, and a spiral wire spring band, D, loosely attached to said eye at one end, whereby any of the coils of the free end 7o may be made to engage the point of the pin, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

MARGARET MILNE. [n s] 

